A River Runs Through Us | by Catherine Shainberg
We enter the New Year having come out of the longest night of the year. But true to the gift kept alive in Pandora’s box, our hearts are filled with hope as we ritualized what…
Read MoreBeing a Hero | Healing Through Children’s Imagery
Imagine you are standing in a green meadow with the blue, blue sky above you. Now turn around and see your horse. What does your horse look like? Does he have a name? Can you…
Read MoreThe Undying Fire
The ever-changing times, the eternally changing seasons and the return to light that the Winter Solstice augurs afford a great time to reflect. I am especially moved to reflect upon a precious experience I had…
Read MoreClearing Ancestral Trauma & Choosing Ancestral Gifts | Inner Self Magazine
There are two types of memories, memory linked to emotion, and memory linked to feeling. It is the first kind of memory that creates blockage. When anger and fear, our primary emotions of fight or…
Read MoreThe Truth About Alternate Facts | by Catherine Shainberg
Every day, we see the willful obliteration of truth occurring globally and, in many parts of the world, violently and tyrannically. The methods in use have now famously become the fodder for what is euphemistically…
Read MoreA Child’s Imagination | by Catherine Shainberg
The notion of childhood as a time of innocence, playfulness and adventures in a safe world in physical reality and in their imagination is an ideal and a memory many of us hold dear. For…
Read MoreThe Heart of Civility | by Catherine Shainberg
"In a world that has gone viral, instantaneously informed and intensely distracting, the solid boundaries a sane world provides are lost. ....How can we re-discover boundaries that support - not destroy - civility?" Every day…
Read MoreOur Bodies Choose | Essay by Catherine Shainberg
When I was having surgery for a hip replacement my surgeon offered a visualization tape for relaxation. I thanked him for relaxation tape but suggested the real issue was different. “The body is conscious,” I…
Read MoreImagination — The Genie Within | by Catherine Shainberg
In times like these, where one after another headline reinforces our feelings of isolation, anxiety for our survival and even for that of the planet itself, it is natural to contract in fear or to…
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